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Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 12:12:11 +1000
From: Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>
To: alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Decorators not worth the effort
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On 13Sep2012 18:58, alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> wrote:
| On Sep 14, 3:54 am, Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmic...@sequans.com>
| wrote:
| > I don't like decorators, I think they're not worth the mental effort.
| 
| Because passing a function to a function is a huge cognitive burden?

It is for me when I'm _writing_ the decorator:-) But if I get it right
and name it well I find it dramaticly _decreases_ the cognitive burden
of the code using the decorator...
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Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>

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